Global Stratification

Measuring Global Poverty

• What Is Extreme Poverty? (Global Citizen)

• Tracking Poverty From Space (Los Angeles Times)
• An ambitious project to measure the wealth of nations shows how GDP is a deceptive gauge of progress (Quartz)

Data & Demographics

• Wealth gap widening for more than 70% of global population (The Guardian)

• A global tipping point: Half the world is now middle class or wealthier (Brookings)

• The shifting gravity of global poverty (World Bank)

• Definitive data on what poor people buy when they’re just given cash (Quartz)
• Global Wealth Update: 0.7% Of Adults Control $116.6 Trillion In Wealth (Zero Hedge Fund)
• The World Bank released new poverty lines — find out where your country stands (Business Insider)
• What The Stat About The 8 Richest Men Doesn't Tell Us About Inequality (NPR)

Global Inequality Consequences

• Inequality is getting so bad even Wall Street is starting to pay attention (Business Insider)

Life Chances

• A Birth Certificate is a Person’s First Possession (The Atlantic)
• These 2 Boys Were Born The Same Day In The Same Town, But Their Lives Will Be Dramatically Different (HuffPost)

Location and Migration

• A Record 68.5 Million People in the World Were Forcibly Displaced by the End of 2017 (Time)
• The Best And Worst Places To Be A Kid (NPR)

Race & Ethnic Inequality

• Mexico's Color Line and the Cultural Imperialism of Light-Skin Preference (Truthout)
• Study reveals racial inequality in Mexico, disproving its 'race-blind' rhetoric (The Conversation)

Gender Income Inequality

• Women, Burdened With Unpaid Labor, Bear Brunt of Global Inequality (The New York Times)
  

• There’s a huge gender component to income inequality that we're ignoring (Business Insider)
• The world’s gender wage gap won’t close for another 100 years (Market Watch)

Gender Inequality & Culture

• While the men of this village go looking for work, the women are in charge (World Economic Forum)

• Menstrual Hygiene Management Enables Women and Girls to Reach Their Full Potential (World Economic Forum)
• Death Threats & $3 Ponytails: What The Fake Hair Trade Is Hiding (Refinery 29)
• This is why 63 million girls are missing in India (New York Post)
• Honour killings in India (Al Jazeera)
• Breaking the silence in the world capital of female genital mutilation (CNN)
• Around The World, Girls Are Taught The Same Limiting Lesson (Huff Post)

Gender Inequality & Public Policy

• Women have only three quarters of economic rights of men (Reuters)
• Only six countries have equal rights for men and women (CNN)

• Sexist Global Laws (Bustle)
• Are human rights bad for women? (Reuters)
• Iceland makes it illegal to pay women less than men (CNN)

Child Marriage

• They escaped child marriage. Now they're speaking out (CNN)

Child Labor

• An army of children toils in African mica mines (NBC)
• Children mining cobalt in Democratic Republic of Congo (CBS News)
• This child being abused in a cobalt mine is why Apple is trying to fix the mining business (Business Insider)

Work Environments

• Two garment factory disasters a century apart show how globalization has sapped labor’s power (Quartz)
• In just four days, top fashion CEOs earn a garment worker’s lifetime pay (Quartz)
• How illegal gold mining in South America poisons people (Miami Herald)
• It would cost you 20 cents more per T-shirt to pay an Indian worker a living wage (The Conversation)
• The Cobalt Pipeline (The Washington Post)

Sex Trafficking, Harassment, & Violence

• Who buys a trafficked child for sex? Otherwise ordinary men. (USA Today)
• The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl (New Yorker)
• We went to India’s largest brothel, where trafficked women work for as little as $3 (Vice News)
• The dangers of the new child marriage law in Bangladesh (CNN)
• Sexual harassment: How it stands around the globe (CNN)
• Why Do Men Harass Women? New Study Sheds Light On Motivations (NPR)
• Mass Rapes To Mass Protests: Violence Against Women In 2016 (Huffington Post)

Slave Labor

• Yes, Slavery Still Exists — These Countries Are the Worst Offenders (Global Citizen)

• You buy a purse at Walmart. There’s a note inside from a “Chinese prisoner.” Now what? (Vox)
• Rising in the Middle East: Forced Labor From Africa (OZY)
• New Report Finds Slavery Worse Than Ever, With 40.3 Million People Currently Enslaved (Blavity)
• People for sale: Where lives are auctioned for $400 (CNN)
• 40 million slaves in the world, finds new report (CNN)

Living Conditions

• More than one billion people do not have access to electricity (World Economic Forum)

• The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it (Our World in Data)
• An infrastructure deficit is making life in African cities more expensive than it should be (Quartz)

Food Insecurity

• A look at why so many people don't get enough food (Los Angeles Times)

Digital Divide

• 52% of the world does not have internet access (Axios)

Global Education

• Why we should invest in getting more kids to read — and how to do it (The World Bank)
• Drive to get children back to school failing worldwide (The Guardian)

Global Health

• Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC. (New York Times)
• In parts of Africa, people with albinism are hunted for their body parts (The Los Angeles Times)

Public Policy

• How Africa can catch up with the world in the fight against poverty (The Conversation)
• Reduce Inequalities: Why It Matters (United Nations)

• How To Fix Poverty: Why Not Just Give People Money? (NPR)
• A College Student Complained About Capitalism. When the Prof Was Done With Him, He Was Speechless (Independent Journal Review)

Remittances

• Remittances from abroad are major economic assets for some developing countries (Pew Research Center)Global Poverty (United Nations)

Social Mobility

• Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World (World Economic Forum)

High Income Countries

• Report Finds Surprisingly High Rate of Slavery in Developed Countries

• What are the richest countries in the world? (USA Today)
• This European country is a model for all the world (World Economic Forum)
• Denmark is deemed most progressive place in the world to live (Daily Mail)
• Norway unseats Denmark as world's happiest country: report (Reuters)

United States

• Statement on Visit to the USA (United Nations)
• A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America (The Guardian)
• The UN sent an envoy to investigate extreme poverty in the United States (Quartz)
• Global report sees rise in inequality in US (Politico)

Global Stratification and History

• The Richest Man and Men Who Ever Lived (BBC)